Honk if You're Happy

Following my visit to the emergency room to get my arm checked out, I attended a Christian Youth Convention in... Connecticut. So we cruised down there topping out at 57 MPH on our beast of a red bus. The whole way up some kids taped some signs to the back of the bus window. One read "Honk if you're happy." I was kind of interested in this. So for twenty minutes I tallied forty-three people who were happy and 9 losers who just waved. In thirty seconds I counted 19 cars that passed us. That's 38 cars a minute, 760 cars in twenty minutes. That's about one in seventeen people that were happy, given that everyone saw the sign. Let's do some more math though. There are three, twenty minute periods in an hour. So 38 times 3 gives us 114 people who passed us that were happy in an hour. Now, 760 times 3 is 2280 cars that passed us in an hour. Let's just multiply both those numbers by three to give us a rough estimate of how many cars passed us during the trip and how many of them were happy. 114 times 3 is 342 people that passed us in three hours were happy. 2280 times 3 is 6840 cars that passed us in three hours (boy were we going slow). Well, that's disappointing that so many people are not happy or can't read. I'm done now.
One a side note, I only have 23 days of school left. Yay!

April 29, 2006

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